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**nermise** · 04-24-2007, 05:20 PM

Yep yep! You got it Rap!

Kind of shocking when you see this stuff happening.

Go rent "The Corporation" and watch it. It is a little heavy handed and exaggerated at times (such as blaming corporate america for the increase in cancer rate w/o discounting the added fact that people are living longer, and therefore cancer has been killing more people later in life rather than other causes, but still...), but it has a lot of information on these things.

People are afraid of cloning because they do not understand it. They do not realize that they are not going to get mutant killer bunny rabbits or a steak that will turn them into fashion consultants if they were to eat it. If you do not get a clone 99.9% right, the critter does not survive. Hell, they do not even live at all!

The only thing I am worried about with cloning is something they have been doing in hortaculture for years. When you "purify" a genetic line too much, and remove most of its divergent characteristics, you make it more succeptable to infection and other maladies later on. If we get a strain of something that attacks our corn fields, we could be in trouble as most of the corn is "twin brothers" to every other plant out there. There will be very little chance of any natural resistance being present in someone elses fields if they are all using the exact same strain.....

All this who-ha about evil clones is just something that people who have watched too many 1950 sci-fi movies (or any movie dealing with clones in the past 50 years for that matter!) have stuck in their heads.

fear sells. And ignorance works so well with fear.

04-24-2007, 05:20 PM	#10
nermise Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	Yep yep! You got it Rap! Kind of shocking when you see this stuff happening. Go rent "The Corporation" and watch it. It is a little heavy handed and exaggerated at times (such as blaming corporate america for the increase in cancer rate w/o discounting the added fact that people are living longer, and therefore cancer has been killing more people later in life rather than other causes, but still...), but it has a lot of information on these things. People are afraid of cloning because they do not understand it. They do not realize that they are not going to get mutant killer bunny rabbits or a steak that will turn them into fashion consultants if they were to eat it. If you do not get a clone 99.9% right, the critter does not survive. Hell, they do not even live at all! The only thing I am worried about with cloning is something they have been doing in hortaculture for years. When you "purify" a genetic line too much, and remove most of its divergent characteristics, you make it more succeptable to infection and other maladies later on. If we get a strain of something that attacks our corn fields, we could be in trouble as most of the corn is "twin brothers" to every other plant out there. There will be very little chance of any natural resistance being present in someone elses fields if they are all using the exact same strain..... All this who-ha about evil clones is just something that people who have watched too many 1950 sci-fi movies (or any movie dealing with clones in the past 50 years for that matter!) have stuck in their heads. fear sells. And ignorance works so well with fear.
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